Everyday Carry

Vanquest FTIM Gen 2 Maximizer

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Mikey Bautista
Vanquest FTIM Gen 2 Maximizer

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Gear comes in all shapes, sizes, and lengths, which is a bad mix for pockets designed to catch everything as-is. Within those unstructured enclaves your gear is banging and scraping against each other, causing unnecessary wear and tear. Larger pockets are also an inefficient way to organize your gear, making it that much harder to grab your essentials at a moment's notice. Enter the EDC solution: pouches. Compact, organized, and easy to carry, purpose-built pouches solve all of your carry needs. Vanquest takes the EDC pouch further with their FTIM Gen 2 Maximizer. With a unique pull-down opening system to make it as fast as possible to get to your gear, it's an ultra-rugged and extra-organized way to manage your everyday kit.

Unlike most half- or clamshell-opening pouches, the FTIM's main compartment is more akin to a dopp kit, with a U-shaped zipper to lay out its contents wide open. This YKK#8 zipper is lockable and comes with Spartan zipper pulls, a combination designed to make opening as fast and as smooth as possible. In the main compartment are 24 elastic webbing slots in both vertical and horizontal orientations; there's a space for your gear be it pens, cables, flash drives, and more. One external pocket, two internal ones, and a detachable 2-position key fob space round out the pouch's organization.

Since this is a mil-spec pouch, that means heavy-duty 500D Cordura nylon with a durable water repellent coating for its exterior. A grab handle sits on top, while on the bottom, each end of the zipper opening has grab tabs for even faster deployment. On the FTIM's sides are MOLLE/PALS-compatible webbing, allowing you to expand its functionality or stash it to the rest of your compatible equipment. Finally, a loop ID panel front and center lets you customize or decorate the pouch to your needs.

Stop stuffing your pockets with loose essentials and get organized with a robust EDC pouch like the Vanquest FTIM instead. Pick one up in three colors at the Amazon link below.

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Mikey Bautista

Director of Everyday Carry Operations


About the Author
Mikey Bautista is an everyday carry (EDC) expert who has been working with the EverydayCarry.com team for nearly a decade, starting with an interest in EDC as a hobby and ending up as a writer for the site in 2014. Through the years, he’s led the site in editorial content and writing about products across every category, from knives to bags to flashlights and everything in between, as well as discovering, bringing exposure, and building bridges with many brands in the industry. Today, he is the site's Director of Everyday Carry Operations, leading the editorial team and managing day-to-day operations.

He has lived through many personal and professional lives, spending nearly a decade in the workforce management industry, a minor career in gaming, and has lent a hand with entrepreneurial efforts back home in the Philippines. He has also been an active participant and helped build a number of significant social communities online, both for EDC and his other hobbies.

Mikey has been at the cusp of gaming, technology, and the internet since the ‘90s and continues to lend his experience, expertise, and authority to all his pursuits. When not online, in a game, or watching movies, you'll find him in the gym, speedrunning his next hobby, or talking at length about EDC with anyone willing to listen.

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